(UPDATES to CORRECT that Cain does not work for Fox News) Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO and radio talk show host Herman Cain was a surprise victor in a straw poll of GOP presidential candidates held at State Republicans’ 29th Annual Spring Gala on Friday. Cain took 54 votes of 357 votes cast. He edged out […]
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House district hunting Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who is about to lose his seat as Ohio downsizes from 18 congressional seats to 16, is coming back to Washington for his second visit in less than a month. He’s packing in the political events and seems to have an eye on the 1st District. Rep. Jay […]
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Redrawing political maps is one of those deadly-boring, but deadly serious, activities. If you’d like to get up close and personal as Republicans and Democrats duke it out to decide how Washington’s 49 state legislative and 10 Congressional Districts will look, now’s your chance. The state’s Redistricting Commission ahs scheduled six public meetings this month. […]
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By a two-to-one margin, Americans endorse President Obama’s decision not to release pictures taken of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after he was shot by Navy SEALS, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal national poll. Fifty-two percent of those surveyed said they “strongly agreed” with withholding the photos, an additional 12 percent saying […]
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has confirmed that he’ll seek the Republican Party’s nomination for president next year. Via Twitter Monday morning, Gingrich said he’ll speak about his plans on Wednesday. In recent national polling, Gingrich trails rivals like Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Donald Trump and Sarah Palin.
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Dominic Holden reports that Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn agrees that the city’s transgender employees should receive full health care coverage – including for transitional surgeries. “This is a pretty modest issue compared to the significant issue we have of health care costs of the city as a whole,” says McGinn. But he adds: “This is […]
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Billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump, appearing on Fox & Friends, described himself as “the least racist person there is.” With his “birther” claims discredited, the prospective 2012 Republican presidential candidate has started questioning how President Obama won admission to Harvard Law School. The Donald has also been stung by remarks from Kevin Allen, a […]
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A federal judge has rejected an attempt to block Seattle’s new yellow pages opt-out program, after the city passed one of the toughest laws in the country targeting yellow pages, and phone book companies fought back, Vanessa Ho of seattlepi.com reports. Click here to read the ruling.
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Be sure to check out the story by seattlepi.com’s Scott Gutiererez detailing how Sound Transit can’t afford a voter-approved plan to build light rail to Federal Way by 2023 due to the down economy’s impact on the agency’s tax revenue. The money problems being faced by the transit agency could have implications beyond south King County. […]
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A liberal policy group that supports a push to require businesses in Seattle to provide mandatory, paid sick leave released a study Monday touting the benefits of the idea. The report by the Economic Opportunity Institute was released by the Seattle Coalition for a Healthy Workforce. It says many of the 190,000 people working […]
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